The Heroine Chronicles is a female-lead theatre and participation company, founded in 2018 by Callie Nestleroth and Clare McCall. We create energetic and colorful productions and interactive workshops with audience experience at the forefront.

We make new work and adaptations in which real and fictional worlds collide; recontextualizing female narratives in our contemporary society, often set in non-traditional spaces.

Our Audiences get a holistic and embodied experience that challenge how you engage with yourself and others.

Through the work we do, our objectives are to:

Offer active, accessible theatrical experiences

Create community through creativity and a shared love of exploring

Give students agency over their own learning

Work from different perspectives

Provide alternative methods of advanced educational engagement

Link the tools and missions of theatres, libraries, museums, and schools

CALLIE NESTLEROTH, Artistic Director

Callie is an American theatre director based in London. Recent work includes: Glitch (VAULT Festival), The Mystery of the Lost Explorer (Museum of Cambridge), Why Are You Still Here? (The Space), Bats (Southwark Playhouse). She is the Artistic Director of The Heroine Chronicles, and with them directing Heroines in Limbo for The International Youth Arts Festival, Oh Heroine How I Love You! on UK Tour, and Social Media Suicide in secondary schools. She is the Waterperry Opera Festival's 2020/2021 Young Artist Director, where she will be directing Greed in 2021. She has assistant directed for Christopher Ashley, is a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, SDCF 2018/2019 Observership Class, alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and the National Theater Institute. @CNestleroth @projectheroine 

NICOLE ACQUAH, Associate Artist

Nicole Acquah is an actor, writer and educator. She holds a BA in Drama and Creative Writing from Royal Holloway, and a Master of Arts in Advanced Theatre Practice from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She has also worked successfully with various arts organisations as a freelance theatre-maker. She runs theatre company Acquah&Co, focusing upon championing and celebrating diverse British voices. Her play For a Black Girl received critical acclaim at VAULT Festival 2018, where it was picked up by Camden People’s Theatre and The Curve, Slough.  Nicole is a visiting lecturer and module facilitator at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, as well as contributor to reputable theatre criticism magazines Exeunt and WhatsonStage. Nicole is an associate artist with The Heroine Chronicles, her first play with the company being an absurdist exploration of literary heroines entitled Heroines in Limbo.

Sara Page, Associate Artist

Sara is an artist who creates movement and music for stage and screen projects and productions. She graduated from the MA Advanced Theatre Practice course at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2017 and has a BA in French and Drama from the University of Birmingham. Her performance credits include: Oh Heroine How I Love You! (UK and international tour), For A Black Girl (VAULT Festival), Axolotl (N16), The Fun Club Presents... (Edinburgh Festival Fringe) and The Girl Who Fell In Love With A Wolf (BBC). She has created movement and/or music scores for various companies including The Heroine Chronicles, Orange Moon Theatre, Idle Discourse, The Fun Club and Trip The Light Theatre as well as for her own solo work. Sara is a vocalist for the vocal ensemble 'Peregrina EnChantica' and also has extensive experience as a theatre facilitator and teacher.

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CLARE MCCALL, Participation Lead

Clare McCall is an actor, theatre-maker & facilitator. For The Heroine Chronicles, Clare has written & performed a revised version of her 2018 Edinburgh Fringe show Social Media Suicide, which premiered in 2020 to secondary school audiences. As the company's Participation Lead, she has facilitated workshops at The Rugby School, Proteus Creation Space, The Mountbatten School & at Chiswick School in collaboration with Be Her Lead. Clare has extensive experience working with young people through freelance theatre projects, teaching work & youth theatre leading. 

In addition to her work with The Heroine Chronicles, Clare is an associate artist for site specific company, Footprints Theatre CIC & female-driven performance company, Pomba Girls. Clare trained at East 15 Acting School and later achieved her MA at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. 

Find her on Twitter: @ClareMcCall_

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